It was nice to read your "Special Report on Mobile Computing" (June). As a reader living outside the United States, I noticed that there was no mention of GSM, the global system for mobile communications. I have heard rumors that some GSM operators will start soon in the U.S. It would be nice to read about it and how companies are using it. GSM provides 9600-bps connections, which are not the most efficient, but better speeds are coming.
Jan Laakso
jan.laakso@cc.tut.fi
GSM is very popular in Europe. Unfortunately, I leave my mobile phone here when I travel abroad because the standards are different. I would gladly trade my phone for a GSM unit if I could get GSM services in the U.S. -- Rafe Needleman
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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